People we like are often those we feel free to share, as Herbert Simon put it, “half baked, quarter baked, and no baked ideas.” Intelligent communities often wind up with criticism based cultures as a means of showing off cleverness, which is death for generative processes. I think of this as search and prioritization having different ideal conditions in which to operate. Search/generation/ideation doesn’t work well in the presence of criticism, which is part of the prioritization process. New things are also often stupid without a bunch of other things being different also. But sometimes changing all those other things is more tractable than it first appears.
I’ve never thought about it this way before, but crab buckets are a stable equilibrium in punishing search spaces. i.e. the young people trying new stuff are going to get their fool selves killed.
People we like are often those we feel free to share, as Herbert Simon put it, “half baked, quarter baked, and no baked ideas.” Intelligent communities often wind up with criticism based cultures as a means of showing off cleverness, which is death for generative processes. I think of this as search and prioritization having different ideal conditions in which to operate. Search/generation/ideation doesn’t work well in the presence of criticism, which is part of the prioritization process. New things are also often stupid without a bunch of other things being different also. But sometimes changing all those other things is more tractable than it first appears.
I’ve never thought about it this way before, but crab buckets are a stable equilibrium in punishing search spaces. i.e. the young people trying new stuff are going to get their fool selves killed.